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  • Govt tightens noose on exam cheats

    Govt tightens noose on exam cheats

    Education CS Migos Ogamba says teachers found facilitating cheating to be ‘impeached’

    Teachers collaborating in exam cheating would lose their jobs and get locked out of public employment.

    CS Education Migos Ogamba says the government would not stand at anything to secure the integrity of the exams.

    Already, it has outlawed the use of mobile phones in all the examination centers across the country

    Migos said the ministry would provide one satellite phone for use by the supervisor.

    He was speaking at Siala Technical College in Rongo Migori County on Tuesday during a tree planting exercise.

    The government, he said, has enhanced additional penalties for exam cheats including teachers and principals facilitating the vice.

    Going forward, he warned, those found culpable would be locked out of public service jobs for good.

    “We have drafted new penalties which are akin to impeachment…. This is just a warning… Just be sure that you will never get a job anywhere in the public once the courts find you guilty,” Migos said.

  • ”You’re a flop,” Senator Omogeni tells Nyamira Governor Nyaribo 

    ”You’re a flop,” Senator Omogeni tells Nyamira Governor Nyaribo 

    Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni has fingered County Governor Amos Nyaribo for mismanaging the devolved unit. 

    He consequently invited the Ethics and Anti-corruption detectives to probe  ‘ghost projects and glaring discrepancies in public funds expenditure’ by the County boss. 

    “For instance, I have seen reports of boreholes dug in various parts of the County that truly are non-existent. 

    ” This is why I always push for probity in expenditure so that Mwananchi does not lose their money unnecessarily,” Omogeni told journalists in Borabu on Sunday. 

    Senator Omogeni is said to be among those spoiling for the Nyamira Governorship in 2027. 

    He further claimed that some Narigp ( National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project) funds had yet to be disbursed to the farmers across the county by the governor. 

     NARIGP is a Government project implemented through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Fisheries and Irrigation (MoALF&I), State Department for Crop Development (SDCD), with funding support from the World Bank.

     Omogeni said though Governor Nyaribo claims on paper to have spent the donor cash on the farmers most farmers were still crying foul. 

    He also took issue with what he termed as a political witch hunt and arbitrary sacking of some county staff to accommodate his cronies. 

    Omogeni claimed already some workers have already reported being demoted and others denied promotions by the County boss. 

    ” You cannot work effectively by fighting staff left right and center All the staff should be respected and accorded their space to work because they are civil servants who by law are apolitical,” Senator Omogeni said. 

    The governor, he added, was only keen on rewarding his cronies at the detriment of leaving a legacy. 

    ” The people you’re fighting are our children. You can’t be sacking to replace them with cronies. They have families and need money just like you,” Omogeni told Nyaribo.

    Any Governor stepping into office, said Omogeni should be ready to work with staff he finds in office. 

    ” This issue of victimizing staff should stop. No Governor doing so at the moment is registering any meaningful development in their backyard,” he said. 

    On Ecde teachers, Omogeni said it was shameful that Nyamira was paying its teachers as low as Sh 12 000 when it’s neighbour Kisii was paying Sh28000. 

    ” He can just travel by road to Kisii and benchmark how things are done, “the Senator said. 

    He also asked the governor to fast-track the payments of health promoters. 

    The health staff have gone without their monthly stipends for more than a year now. 

    Omogeni also promised to champion improved tea bonus earnings for Nyamira farmers. 

    He said the earnings this year were ‘gravely low’ 

  • Put your act together, Kisii residents tell Ruto, Gachagua

    Put your act together, Kisii residents tell Ruto, Gachagua

    BY MAHATMA GANDHI MAGATI

    Most Kisii residents want President William Ruto and his estranged deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, to put their act together or ship out together.

    They singled out for censure the bill being floated to impeach Gachagua against the pressing concerns the country was facing at the moment.

    They told Ruto to reconcile with Gachagua and begin to focus more firmly on how to move the country forward.

    “We elected them together and should pack and leave together. It that is what they are up to,” said George Magange, an activist.

    He said if parliament was serious on its intent then it should impeach both Ruto and his deputy.

    More others that had turned up at the Agricultural Training College for the public participation exercise termed flimsy and weak the grounds being presented as evidence to impeach the embattled Gachagua.

    They told the duo to work together and stop the drama.

    “ Let them work together for now, we are only two years shy of the main polls, the President can pick another running mate in 2027” added Magange.

    Thomas Keraka and Benjamin Atemba, described as of ‘low material value’ all the grounds being fronted as evidence to indict Gachagua.

    “From any standpoint, the grounds lack substance and are weak,” stated said.
    Keraka

    They accused the Kenyan Kwanza government of losing its focus and directing all its primitive energy on non-issues.

    They’re called on their MPs to vote No to the bill.

    Wilfred Monyenye, Kisii Township Ward Rep said the health and the education sector were in a mess and challenged the Head of State to rise to the challenge.

    He said the university funding model, the Social Health Insurance Fund ( SHIF) was dysfunctional, stressing, that they are more important than the impeachment of Gachagua.

    “ Our people cannot access health care services since their National Hospital Insurance Fund ( NHIF) Cards are not being recognized after the shift to the new Fund,” Monyenye told the press.

    Only Darius Mosoti, a youth leader, supported the impeachment claiming Gachagua in his tenure revived the spirit of tribalism in the country.

    Gachagua is facing abuse of office charges and violation of the law as the impeachment threatens to end his political career.

  • Gusii clergy rebuke Mungatana over ‘church tax bill’

    Gusii clergy rebuke Mungatana over ‘church tax bill’

    BY MAHATMA GANDHI MAGATI

    Members of the clergy from Kisii have rejected Senator Dunstan Mungatana’s ambitious proposals to have the state impose a tax on churches.

    They termed as Satan-inspired and evil any move by the state to collect cess from houses of worship.

    Bible Way Ministry cleric, Rev Evans Onduso, who is also the Kisii Clergy Forum Vice Chair, the pastors now want all believing legislators to rally together and block the Mungatana-sponsored Bill

    “You don’t impose taxes on God, He gives us what we return to him in a token of appreciation. It should not be the other way round,” said Onduso.

    The controversial Bill, inter alia seeks to introduce taxes on income, gifts, or profits generated from church.

    The revenues would only be exempt from taxation if they were entirely allocated to charitable causes.

    It proposes a fine of Sh5 million, three years in jail, or both for any religious leader who operates an unregistered organization.

    The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK), and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya (EAK) have since called for the withdrawal of the Bill to facilitate stakeholder consultation by the clergy members.

    In Kisii, various pastors called for the Bill’s rejection and called on the legislators from Gusii to reject it.

    “Mungatana is inviting fire from heaven. He should keep his distance from religious affairs,” added Bishop Nyanuga Omambia, chair of Kisii Clergy Forum chairman.

    Peter Morwabe, founder of the Gospel Embassy church in Kisii implored Mungatana to drop it saying it stains the state’s reputation.

    “It is not worth discussing and I believe it should die on arrival,” he told Kenyaleo. Co. Ke

    “We don’t know the objective, the intention, and the motive and I would betray President William Ruto if it goes through and becomes law,” Morwabe said.

    Attorney General Dorcas Oduor has already distanced the State from the Religious Organisation Bill, 2024

    The bill seeks to establish a regulatory framework for registration and further spells out measures for containing rogue clerics with a bent on extremism.

    According to Oduor, the proposed piece of legislation reflects the independent views and legislative agenda of Senator Mungatana.

    “It is hereby clarified that the Religious Organizations Bill, 2024, is a privately sponsored Bill brought forth by Senator Dunstan